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As if no time had passed
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee: They waited 7 and half Ecars, sometimes sitting vigil at the bedside of their son, rother and father, a police officer who took a bullet In the forehead and drifted all that time in the shadows of coma, reports AP.
They never gave up hope Gary Dockery would somehow pull through. And this week It seemed all prayers were answered when he woke up, spoke to his sister and cracked jokes as if no time had passed.
"1 looked up at him and he had a look I had never seen before." Usa Dockery said through a hospital spokesman Wednesday. "He seemed so at ease and his eyes were wide open.”
"I'm your sister," she said.
"Uh-huh." he responded.
"You're talking!" she exclaimed.
"I sure am." he answered brightly.
There's not but one way to describe It." said family friend Tim Thompson. "It's a miracle of God."
Unique gift on Valentine Day
SANTA CLARA, California: Noreen McGuire has already given her husband her heart. So for Valentine's Day. she's giving him one of her kidneys, reports AP.
"We thought that would be a nice gift," she joked. T told him that's all he's getting this year."
Surgery to transplant one of Mrs McGuire's kidneys to her husband. Michael, began Wednesday morning at Stanford University Medical Centre.
"It's a humbling experience," McGuire said on the eve of the operation, resting after what he hoped would be his last dialysis session. Tt's a big responsibility to donate — and a big responsibility to accept a gift like that."
Most of the thousands of kidneys that are transplanted each year come from donors who have Just died. Blood relatives are the first live donors doctors seek.
McGuire, a diabetic, rejected his sister’s offer to donate. fearing that she. too. might develop diabetes and eventually suffer from kidney failure, one of the disease s complications.
The winning smooch to last over 40 hrs!
MOSCOW: Thirteen couple? stepped forward Wednesday to enter Lithuania's first ever Valentine's Day contest for the longest kiss, reports AFP.
The contest's organiser, a radio station, told the Baltic news agency it expects the winning smooch to last over 40 hours.
Couples will be allowed to take 10-minuted breaks every hour, and half-hour breaks every four hours. They will be watched round the clock by a rotating Jury, the agency said.
The winning couple will receive an eight-day cruise down the Nile, plus travel expenses.